Dresses Quotations | Page 3

But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magazines, and it's all, 'Do you like the dress or not like the dress?' and 'Did she look fat?' To keep borrowing dresses and jewellery is like a full-time job. And you have to be a fantasy, which you can never be, so you always feel depressed.

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.

Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

the perfect man .... so tall and classy and he dresses well. He's also the best family man. It looks like he's really good with the kids. Basically, he's the perfect man.

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

We had 10 girls in black dresses walking around with bow ties on. Guerrilla marketing.

I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

Feel like a woman, wear a dress!

The hardest thing about doing a series and having it stick is that you've never performed with each other, and the pilot is kind of a dress rehearsal, and you don't know the tone until two or three episodes in.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and you're done.

At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile.

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.

I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage ...

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as 'laydees'. It's a bad influence.

I'm the one usually wearing the dress, which is what I would've preferred, but they wouldn't let me. It's been 15 years since I did that and my ass isn't as good as it used to be.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.

I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

Technically my dog's naked most of the time. Except halloween, when I dress him up as Liza Minelli.

I love clothes. No brands want to dress me.

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

I have more fun playing Hannah, because I like to sing and dress up.

There is a short length that I'm doing ... and I'm doing some cropped pants and some long dresses and long skirts at the same time,

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

I also dress up as a sexy fairy.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.

My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

She's online looking at prom dresses every day. I'll definitely give her a cut.

She smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like her mother!

She goes to a cocktail party that's a sea of little black dresses and it's get boring. So she comes in with this little opulent couture pastel complexion cocktail, and they're so charming.

One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.

I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.

I have a feeling that most of the actresses on the red carpet will follow the usual pattern of strapless column slinky dresses that show off their bodies. The new emphasis will be the back instead of the boobs -- but that doesn't mean there won't be plenty of implants.

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation.

For summer I have no idea where to go with an evening gown. In my life there are no occasions to go, so it looks like the kimonos and the little party dresses underneath, like you had a party the night before.

If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

What women need today is classic things with an age, with fantasy, with a quality. Dresses you can live with. Sometimes it's the fabrics who win, sometimes it's the shape, but I always rework on themes that make Versace a classic name with serenity.